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Telly Talk Star
With this thread:
http://tellytalk.net/threads/a-or-b.9469/
I gave two examples of the opening of two options for Dallas going forward. A. continued from TNT and B. where TNT is all a dream and the story continues from the movies. I tried to incorporate many of the ideas from other survey threads (all but John Ross remaining the 40 year old looser as seen on TNT, I’ve yet to be able to figure that one out. This C option, I’m hoping sparks a lot of talk is an idea for a reboot. The idea is it takes place probably in 2021 or 2, new cast, new stories, but loosely based off the original. I also took it back to an earlier time where JR is just starting to expect a role in the company, a young company that Jock put his sole into.
Reboot ....
The sun just begins to set the sky over South Fork on fire, very early in a winter morning. Miss Ellie warms her hands over a camp fire and she gives direction to the ranch hands for the day.
Inside, in his heavily paneled study, Jock raps up his meeting with her ‘lieutenants,’ seeing them out the side door onto the patio before turning back into the room. “Thank you for staying Punk,” he says to the slightly older man in the room. “So straight shooting. How did JR do?”
“He got the oil leases you wanted up in the badlands.”
“Everyone?”
“Everyone. He blackmailed a couple of people. Slept with a widow. Set up some redneck sending him off to prison so he could make the deal, oh and slept with a young woman to get her father to sign, or ruin the girl’s engagement to the man her father picked.”
“What the hell. He’s married and with a baby on the way. I’ve gotta have a talk with that boy.”
“He got it done.”
“Yeah but he coulda used other fellas for the screwing around. But Ewing Oil’s got the mineral rights.”
“Sure does. You wanted an oil production company of your own and you got it. Ewing Construction is already business.”
“Good. Good. What I want next is midstream.”
“JR’s already on it.”
“No shit? I want him to bring Bobby I’m board then.”
“He’s already got a list of companies he wants to get his hands on.”
“Buying existing companies. He thinks he can make a good deal?”
“He’s made real good friends with Senator Brown.”
“Oh I know all about his friendship with that woman. She finally gonna turn on that little piece of shit son of hers?”
“I think so.”
“Well maybe he can make the deal. But I want him working with Bobby. That boy ain’t gonna go to graduate school. Lucky we got him through undergrad.”
“Hell of an All-American.”
“Hell of a partier. No I want him settled before he goes off and does something stupid.”
Lucy sits on a private plane across from a very handsome older man in a pilots uniform, handing him a tablet on which it sound like a porn is playing. She says, “It seems to me you’re a talented man.”
“Where did you get this?”
“I have my sources. But it’s the reason I got you hired.”
“You got me this job?”
“Let me be frank. I’m not interested in the drama of boys. I find hiring professionals for that sort of thing makes better sense. And obviously you’re a professional. So I can pay you for your continued services, or . . .”
In the office if district prosecutor Cliff Barnes, Cliff says, “I’m telling Jock Ewing bribed them to get those vibrances. There’s no way around it. He bought the refinery’s on the cheap because no one else could push through what he needed.”
“And I’m telling you, this office isn’t talking on a man like Jock Ewing without hard evidence.”
“Then let me get it.”
“And as soon as you start snooping around Ewing gets word and I’m in the fighting my life.”
“You say that because you know what he’s capable of.”
“Of course I do. But that don’t mean I can prove it.”
“I’m telling you, you give me the chance and I can. Bringing down Jock Ewing makes a name for me and you that we’re unstoppable.”
A very pregnant Sue Ellen has lunch at an airy restaurant in Dallas with a bunch of women her age discussing the up and coming Daughters of the Alamo dinner dance. One woman says to another, “did you know Sue Ellen here is the only member of the DOA with family going back to both sides oh the Alamo? On her maternal grandfather side a Texas soldier killed right off, and on her grandmother’s side, all way back to Santa Anna himself.”
“Really?”
“Yes it’s true. My mother’s parents were a mixed marriage in the day. Their fathers even cut them out of their families for it. It was quite the story.”
“That’s a beautiful ring,” she says to Sue Ellen noticing her enormous emerald engagement ring.
“Oh thank you. Jock picked it out for me.”
JR walks into the old money dinning room of the Cattleman’s Club and noticed a round table at the center of the room. He approaches and puts his hands on the backs of two of them looking across the table at the older woman. “Well Senator Brown, I hope these gentlemen, and I do use the term loosely, aren’t causing you no trouble.”
“Not at all JR. But Jeremy keeps on insisting we talk business when he knows my assets are in a blind trust.”
Patting the pack of the older man on his right, JR says, “Now Wendell I got to respect your efforts. Like my daddy always said, where there's a way, there's a will. You all enjoy your brandy and cigars and... dreams of victory.” Pop staying them on the back again he walks over to a both and sits across from Punk.
Punk says, “Looks like the West Star goon squad is muscling in on your shipping company.”
“Not likely. Judith’s just playin’ with ‘em.”
In a convertible racing down an empty, straight Texas road Bobby says to Pam, “Don’t you worry about all that. You’re a Ewing now. We’re all gonna get alone just fine.”
“But Bobby your dad and my dad are like oil and water.”
“More like alcohol and fire,” Bobby laughs.
Pam says, “That’s not funny.”
“Oh come on Pam. I’m telling you things are gonna turn out great. My brother always says, rich folks are always happy!"
Opening credits
Ashton Kutcher as John “Jock” Ewing, Sr. (50): foster kid who went to college on a scholarship for geology, with his friends he built a small oil rig construction company into Ewing Industries, a billion dollar conglomerate
Mila Kunis as Eleanor “Miss Ellie” Barbara née Saidova Ewing (44): pregnant and married at 18, the daughter of a Texas Rancher who’s wife’s family goes back to the Alamo, a sweet and endearing woman who loves ranching life
Gavin Leatherwood as John Ross “JR” Ewing (25): Jock and Ellie’s son, kind of nerdy growing up, has his MBA and expects to take over running Ewing Industries, know for his distrust of wife and his shady deals
Victoria Moroles as Maria Susana Elena “SueEllen” née Shad-Morales Ewing (24): the daughter of one of Texas and Mexico’s oldest families, not as wealthy as they once were, know for her district of her husband and snobbery
Froy Gutierrez as Robert “Bobby” James Ewing (21): Jock and Ellie’s son, recently graduated from college with a business was degree, football All-American looking for his role in the family, closeted bisexual
Victoria Baldesarra as Pamela “Pam” Jean née Barnes Ewing (21): Bobby’s new wife, the daughter of one of Jock’s former partners turned enemy, undergraduate in economics working on her Ph.D., a bit of a nerd herself
Siena Agudong as Lucille “Lucy” Eleanor Ewing (17): Jock and Ellie’s spoiled daughter, she attends a Swiss boarding school and jets back and forth where she looks at herself as the queen of the manor
Cayden Boyd as Clifford “Cliff” Willard Barnes (24): Pam’s brother, working in the Dallas district attorneys office as a prosecutor trying to build a name for himself
Shemar Moore: as Marvin “Punk” Anderson, JR (55): one of Jock’s original partners, owns 16% of Ewing Industries and serves as its President and CEO
http://tellytalk.net/threads/a-or-b.9469/
I gave two examples of the opening of two options for Dallas going forward. A. continued from TNT and B. where TNT is all a dream and the story continues from the movies. I tried to incorporate many of the ideas from other survey threads (all but John Ross remaining the 40 year old looser as seen on TNT, I’ve yet to be able to figure that one out. This C option, I’m hoping sparks a lot of talk is an idea for a reboot. The idea is it takes place probably in 2021 or 2, new cast, new stories, but loosely based off the original. I also took it back to an earlier time where JR is just starting to expect a role in the company, a young company that Jock put his sole into.
Reboot ....
The sun just begins to set the sky over South Fork on fire, very early in a winter morning. Miss Ellie warms her hands over a camp fire and she gives direction to the ranch hands for the day.
Inside, in his heavily paneled study, Jock raps up his meeting with her ‘lieutenants,’ seeing them out the side door onto the patio before turning back into the room. “Thank you for staying Punk,” he says to the slightly older man in the room. “So straight shooting. How did JR do?”
“He got the oil leases you wanted up in the badlands.”
“Everyone?”
“Everyone. He blackmailed a couple of people. Slept with a widow. Set up some redneck sending him off to prison so he could make the deal, oh and slept with a young woman to get her father to sign, or ruin the girl’s engagement to the man her father picked.”
“What the hell. He’s married and with a baby on the way. I’ve gotta have a talk with that boy.”
“He got it done.”
“Yeah but he coulda used other fellas for the screwing around. But Ewing Oil’s got the mineral rights.”
“Sure does. You wanted an oil production company of your own and you got it. Ewing Construction is already business.”
“Good. Good. What I want next is midstream.”
“JR’s already on it.”
“No shit? I want him to bring Bobby I’m board then.”
“He’s already got a list of companies he wants to get his hands on.”
“Buying existing companies. He thinks he can make a good deal?”
“He’s made real good friends with Senator Brown.”
“Oh I know all about his friendship with that woman. She finally gonna turn on that little piece of shit son of hers?”
“I think so.”
“Well maybe he can make the deal. But I want him working with Bobby. That boy ain’t gonna go to graduate school. Lucky we got him through undergrad.”
“Hell of an All-American.”
“Hell of a partier. No I want him settled before he goes off and does something stupid.”
Lucy sits on a private plane across from a very handsome older man in a pilots uniform, handing him a tablet on which it sound like a porn is playing. She says, “It seems to me you’re a talented man.”
“Where did you get this?”
“I have my sources. But it’s the reason I got you hired.”
“You got me this job?”
“Let me be frank. I’m not interested in the drama of boys. I find hiring professionals for that sort of thing makes better sense. And obviously you’re a professional. So I can pay you for your continued services, or . . .”
In the office if district prosecutor Cliff Barnes, Cliff says, “I’m telling Jock Ewing bribed them to get those vibrances. There’s no way around it. He bought the refinery’s on the cheap because no one else could push through what he needed.”
“And I’m telling you, this office isn’t talking on a man like Jock Ewing without hard evidence.”
“Then let me get it.”
“And as soon as you start snooping around Ewing gets word and I’m in the fighting my life.”
“You say that because you know what he’s capable of.”
“Of course I do. But that don’t mean I can prove it.”
“I’m telling you, you give me the chance and I can. Bringing down Jock Ewing makes a name for me and you that we’re unstoppable.”
A very pregnant Sue Ellen has lunch at an airy restaurant in Dallas with a bunch of women her age discussing the up and coming Daughters of the Alamo dinner dance. One woman says to another, “did you know Sue Ellen here is the only member of the DOA with family going back to both sides oh the Alamo? On her maternal grandfather side a Texas soldier killed right off, and on her grandmother’s side, all way back to Santa Anna himself.”
“Really?”
“Yes it’s true. My mother’s parents were a mixed marriage in the day. Their fathers even cut them out of their families for it. It was quite the story.”
“That’s a beautiful ring,” she says to Sue Ellen noticing her enormous emerald engagement ring.
“Oh thank you. Jock picked it out for me.”
JR walks into the old money dinning room of the Cattleman’s Club and noticed a round table at the center of the room. He approaches and puts his hands on the backs of two of them looking across the table at the older woman. “Well Senator Brown, I hope these gentlemen, and I do use the term loosely, aren’t causing you no trouble.”
“Not at all JR. But Jeremy keeps on insisting we talk business when he knows my assets are in a blind trust.”
Patting the pack of the older man on his right, JR says, “Now Wendell I got to respect your efforts. Like my daddy always said, where there's a way, there's a will. You all enjoy your brandy and cigars and... dreams of victory.” Pop staying them on the back again he walks over to a both and sits across from Punk.
Punk says, “Looks like the West Star goon squad is muscling in on your shipping company.”
“Not likely. Judith’s just playin’ with ‘em.”
In a convertible racing down an empty, straight Texas road Bobby says to Pam, “Don’t you worry about all that. You’re a Ewing now. We’re all gonna get alone just fine.”
“But Bobby your dad and my dad are like oil and water.”
“More like alcohol and fire,” Bobby laughs.
Pam says, “That’s not funny.”
“Oh come on Pam. I’m telling you things are gonna turn out great. My brother always says, rich folks are always happy!"
Opening credits
Ashton Kutcher as John “Jock” Ewing, Sr. (50): foster kid who went to college on a scholarship for geology, with his friends he built a small oil rig construction company into Ewing Industries, a billion dollar conglomerate
Mila Kunis as Eleanor “Miss Ellie” Barbara née Saidova Ewing (44): pregnant and married at 18, the daughter of a Texas Rancher who’s wife’s family goes back to the Alamo, a sweet and endearing woman who loves ranching life
Gavin Leatherwood as John Ross “JR” Ewing (25): Jock and Ellie’s son, kind of nerdy growing up, has his MBA and expects to take over running Ewing Industries, know for his distrust of wife and his shady deals
Victoria Moroles as Maria Susana Elena “SueEllen” née Shad-Morales Ewing (24): the daughter of one of Texas and Mexico’s oldest families, not as wealthy as they once were, know for her district of her husband and snobbery
Froy Gutierrez as Robert “Bobby” James Ewing (21): Jock and Ellie’s son, recently graduated from college with a business was degree, football All-American looking for his role in the family, closeted bisexual
Victoria Baldesarra as Pamela “Pam” Jean née Barnes Ewing (21): Bobby’s new wife, the daughter of one of Jock’s former partners turned enemy, undergraduate in economics working on her Ph.D., a bit of a nerd herself
Siena Agudong as Lucille “Lucy” Eleanor Ewing (17): Jock and Ellie’s spoiled daughter, she attends a Swiss boarding school and jets back and forth where she looks at herself as the queen of the manor
Cayden Boyd as Clifford “Cliff” Willard Barnes (24): Pam’s brother, working in the Dallas district attorneys office as a prosecutor trying to build a name for himself
Shemar Moore: as Marvin “Punk” Anderson, JR (55): one of Jock’s original partners, owns 16% of Ewing Industries and serves as its President and CEO
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